Aphrosylus Explained

Aphrosylus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. All species are intertidal in habitat.^[1]

Species

• Aphrosylus aculeatus Negrobov, 1979^[2]
• Aphrosylus aguellinus Vaillant, 1955^[3]
• Aphrosylus argyreatus Frey, 1945^[4]
• Aphrosylus atlanticus Dahl, 1960
• Aphrosylus beckeri Parent, 1927^[5]
• Aphrosylus calcarator Frey, 1945^[4]
• Aphrosylus canariensis Santos Abreu, 1929
• Aphrosylus celtiber Haliday, 1855^[6]
• Aphrosylus cilifemoratus Rampini, 1982^[7]
• Aphrosylus dytei Olejníček & Barták, 2004
• Aphrosylus ferox Haliday, 1851
• Aphrosylus fumipennis Van Duzee, 1924
• Aphrosylus fur Parent, 1928
• Aphrosylus fuscipennis Strobl, 1909
• Aphrosylus gioiellae Rampini & Munari, 1987
• Aphrosylus giordanii Rampini & Munari, 1987
• Aphrosylus jacquemini Vaillant, 1950
• Aphrosylus jucundus Becker, 1908^[8]
• Aphrosylus lindbergi Frey, 1958
• Aphrosylus madeirensis Frey, 1949
• Aphrosylus maroccanus Vaillant, 1955^[3]
• Aphrosylus mitis Verrall, 1912
• Aphrosylus occultus Becker, 1908^[8]
• Aphrosylus parcearmatus Parent, 1925
• Aphrosylus piscator Lichtwardt, 1902
• Aphrosylus raptor Haliday, 1851
• Aphrosylus rossii Rampini, 1982^[7]
• Aphrosylus salensis Grootaert & Van de Velde, 2019^[9]
• Aphrosylus schumanni Negrobov, 1979^[2]
• Aphrosylus temaranus Vaillant, 1955^[3]
• Aphrosylus tenuipes Van Duzee, 1924
• Aphrosylus venator Loew, 1857

Aphrosylus griseatus Curran, 1926 is a synonym of Cemocarus griseatus (Curran, 1926), the type species of Cemocarus.^[10]

The following species were moved to Paraphrosylus:

• Aphrosylus californicus Harmston, 1952^[11]
• Aphrosylus direptor Wheeler, 1897^[12]
• Aphrosylus grassator Wheeler, 1897^[12]
• Aphrosylus nigripennis Van Duzee, 1924
• Aphrosylus praedator Wheeler, 1897^[12]
• Aphrosylus wirthi Harmston, 1951

The following species were moved to Cymatopus:

• Aphrosylus setosus Curran, 1932

Notes and References

1. Abdelsalam . Khaled Mahmoud . First record of a larva of the dipteran genus Aphrosylus Haliday, 1851 (Dolichopodidae) from the Egyptian Mediterranean Sea . Polskie pismo entomologiczne . 2019 . 88 . 1 . 79–92 . 10.2478/pjen-2019-0006 . free . 5 December 2022 . English . 2299-9884.
2. Negrobov. O. P.. Dolichopodidae . Die Fliegen der Paläarktischen Region . 321 . 29. 1979. 419–474. E.Schweizerbart'sche Science Publishers. Stuttgart.
3. Vaillant . F. . Les Dolichopodidae des rivages maritima en Afrique du Nord (Diptères) . Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord . 1955 . 46 . 303–308.
4. Frey. R.. Tiergeographische Studien über die Dipterenfauna der Azoren. I. Verzeichnis der bisher von den Azoren bekannten Dipteren.. Commentationes Biologicae. 1945. 8. 10. 1–114.
5. Parent. O.. Dolichopodides paléarctiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Encyclopedie Entomologique Ser B II. 1927. 4. 45–96.
6. Haliday. A. H.. Descriptions of insects figured, and references to plates illustrating the notes on Kerry insects. Natural History Review. 1855. 2. 59–64. 1 March 2016.
7. Rampini. L.. Due nuovi Aphrosylus della Sierra Leone (Diptera, Dolichopodidae). Problemi attuali di scienza e di cultura, N. 255, Sezione: Missioni ed esplorazioni. Ricerche Biologiche in Sierra Leone. 1982. 8. 41–46.
8. Becker. T.. Dipteren der Kanarischen Inseln. Mitteilungen aus dem zoologischen Museum in Berlin. 1908. 4. 1–180, 4 pls. 5 October 2015. Berlin.
9. Grootaert. P.. Van de Velde. I.. 2019. Empidoid flies from Cabo Verde (Diptera, Empidoidea, Dolichopodidae and Hybotidae) are not only composed of Old World tropical species. European Journal of Taxonomy. 528. 1–17. 10.5852/ejt.2019.528. free.
10. Meuffels. H.J.G.. Grootaert. P. Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Papua New Guinea I: The genus Cymatopus Kertész with a discussion on Abaretia Miller and Cemocarus gen.nov.. Indo-Malayan Zoology. 1984. 1. 141–158. 22 May 2016. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Rotterdam. 0168-6259. https://web.archive.org/web/20160611092916/http://www.naturalsciences.be/LIII/pdf/indo_malayan/vol1_1984/vol1-1/meuffels_1984.pdf. 11 June 2016. dead.
11. Harmston. F. C.. New species of Dolichopodidae in the U.S. National Museum (Diptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 1952. 54. 281–294. 13 July 2016.
12. Wheeler. W. M.. A genus of maritime Dolichopodidae new to America. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Zoology. Series 3. 1897. 1. 145–152, 1 pl. 21 May 2016.